realize
be fully aware or cognizant of
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,810 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,901 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- be fully aware or cognizant of also: recognize, recognise, realise, agnize, agnise
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally also: understand, realise, see Now I see!I just can't see your point
- make real or concrete; give reality or substance to also: realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate our ideas must be substantiated into actions
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages also: gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realise How much do you make a month in your new job?She earns a lot in her new job
- convert into cash; of goods and property also: realise
- expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass also: realise
realize in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I wonder can you realize all that that means?
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Cecilia did not realize that the assumed roughness covered something very like shame.
Back to Billabong · Mary Grant Bruce · Chapter 1
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I am beginning to know her a little and to realize how much there is to know.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 1
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The Negro, for a long time after starting on the journey to Paris, did not realize his plight.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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We cannot look into the future, but later we shall understand it all and realize why we had to bear our troubles.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1